Mises Wire

Gary Galles

Hikes to minimum mileage requirements make cars less affordable while doing little to improve air quality.

William L. Anderson

All socialist states, including democratic ones, demand obedience and conformity in their economic and cultural diktats. And there is no kind and gentle way of snuffing out resistance.

Chris Calton

People usually recoil at the idea of trading babies for money, but in the wake of Soviet deprivation, easy-adoption laws helped countless orphans in Romania.

Kai Weiss

“Corruption is a regular effect of interventionism,” Ludwig von Mises once wrote, and we see this principle at work today in the European Union.

Mark Thornton

The Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia remains listed for “completion” in 2020. Will its completion trigger a new Skyscraper Curse?

Jesús Huerta de Soto

Here's how to tell the Austrian approach on money apart from the views of other schools of thought.

Aaron Banks

A just society is not some game of chess where we can move around each person like they exist to carry out the goals of "the people."

Mark Brandly

In order to confuse matters, much of the true debt incurred by the federal government each year is simply declared to not be part of the deficit.

Daniel Lacalle

European bureaucrats thinks tax rates should be similar across the zone. But they naturally want all tax rates to "harmonize" at high rates, like those in France.